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Luminar CEO Austin Russell is the youngest self-made billionaire after taking his company public via a special-purpose acquisition company merger last month.
It s a Silicon Valley tale: Russell has built inventions since his childhood and dropped out of Stanford when he got the Thiel Fellowship to work on Luminar.
He disrupted innovation in an emerging industry, developing nontraditional lidar sensors that help self-driving cars see the road.
Luminar s future looks promising, but it still has a few obstacles to overcome. Russell s billionaire status depends on Luminar s ability to execute.